Take advantage of Free File when doing taxes

9:56 PM,
Feb. 20, 2013

Written by

Bill Moak

Getting your taxes done was once something that was almost exclusively the province of accountants. But in recent years, more and more Americans have been filing their own taxes with the help of electronic programs such as Intuit's Turbotax and dozens of others. A report from National Taxpayer advocate Nina Olson (yes, there is such a person) estimates that 30 percent of taxpayers use tax software, 60 percent use professional tax preparers and the remaining 10 percent fill out their own forms by hand.

One nagging problem with do-it-yourself taxes, though, is that often, there is still ...